Margaret P. Battin & Timothy E. Quill 2004 - Euthanasia

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Margaret P. Battin, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah, and Timothy E. Quill, MD, Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Medical Humanities at the University of Rochester, in their 2004 book Physician-Assisted Dying: The Case for Palliative Care & Patient Choice, stated:

“We firmly believe that physician-assisted death should be one–not the only one, but one–of the last-resort options available to a patient facing a hard death. We agree that these options should include high dose pain medication if needed, cessation of life-sustaining therapy, voluntary cessation of eating and drinking, and terminal sedation. We also believe, however, that physician-assisted dying, whether it is called physician-assisted death or physician aid in dying or physician-assisted suicide, should be among the options available to patients at the end of life.”
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